diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2c78ea7..c726f0b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ required-features = ["glm46"]
 
 [dependencies]
 # Python Integration (0.24+ supports Python 3.13) - optional
-pyo3 = { version = "0.24.1", features = ["extension-module"], optional = true }
+pyo3 = { version = "0.27.2", features = ["extension-module"], optional = true }
 
 # Serialization
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
@@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ base64 = "0.22"
 web-sys = { version = "0.3.83", features = ["ReadableStream"] }
 
 # PDF Processing
-lopdf = "0.33"
+lopdf = "0.38"
 
 # Text Processing
-pulldown-cmark = "0.10"
-scraper = "0.18"
+pulldown-cmark = "0.13"
+scraper = "0.25"
 regex = "1.10"
 
 # URL Parsing (for SSRF protection)
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ futures = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 futures-util = { version = "0.3", features = ["std"] }
 
 # HTTP Client
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json", "stream"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.13", features = ["json", "stream"] }
 
 # CLI
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive", "env"] }
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ clap_complete = "4.5"
 
 # Error Handling
 anyhow = "1.0"
-thiserror = "1.0"
+thiserror = "2.0"
 
 # Async traits
 async-trait = "0.1"
@@ -170,19 +170,19 @@ sha2 = "0.10"
 secrecy = { version = "0.10", features = ["serde"] }
 
 # SQLite for local telemetry storage
-rusqlite = { version = "0.32", features = ["bundled"] }
+rusqlite = { version = "0.38", features = ["bundled"] }
 
 # Configuration
-config = "0.14"
+config = "0.15"
 dotenvy = "0.15"
 toml = "0.9"
 num_cpus = "1.16"
 
 # JSON Schema Validation
-jsonschema = "0.18"
+jsonschema = "0.38"
 
 # File watching (for hot reload)
-notify = "6.1"
+notify = "8.2"
 
 # Rayon for parallel processing
 rayon = "1.10"
@@ -191,34 +191,34 @@ rayon = "1.10"
 once_cell = "1.19"
 
 # Progress bars & Console
-indicatif = "0.17"
+indicatif = "0.18"
 console = { version = "0.16", features = ["std"] }
 
 # Directories
-directories = "5"
-dirs = "5"
+directories = "6"
+dirs = "6"
 walkdir = "2.4"
 
 # ONNX Runtime for local embeddings (BGE-M3)
 ort = { version = "2.0.0-rc.10", optional = true }
 
 # HuggingFace tokenizers
-tokenizers = { version = "0.19", optional = true }
+tokenizers = { version = "0.22", optional = true }
 
 # NDArray for tensor operations (needed by ONNX)
-ndarray = { version = "0.15", optional = true }
+ndarray = { version = "0.17", optional = true }
 
 # ARF Module dependencies (optional feature)
 sled = { version = "0.34", optional = true }
-wasmtime = { version = "24.0.5", optional = true }
-sysinfo = { version = "0.30", optional = true }
-petgraph = { version = "0.6", optional = true, features = ["serde-1"] }
+wasmtime = { version = "40.0.1", optional = true }
+sysinfo = { version = "0.37", optional = true }
+petgraph = { version = "0.8", optional = true, features = ["serde-1"] }
 rust-bert = { version = "0.23", optional = true, features = ["download-libtorch", "hf-tokenizers"], default-features = false }
 parking_lot = { version = "0.12" }  # Used for ws_auth connection tracking
-md5 = { version = "0.7", optional = true }  # For aesthetic engine config hashing
+md5 = { version = "0.8", optional = true }  # For aesthetic engine config hashing
 
 # Web Framework for WebSocket MCP Server
-axum = { version = "0.7", features = ["ws"] }
+axum = { version = "0.8", features = ["ws"] }
 tower = "0.5"
 tower-http = { version = "0.6", features = ["cors", "trace"] }
 hyper = "1"
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ hyper = "1"
 tokio-test = "0.4"
 tempfile = "3.10"
 pretty_assertions = "1.4"
-criterion = { version = "0.5", features = ["html_reports", "async_tokio"] }
+criterion = { version = "0.8", features = ["html_reports", "async_tokio"] }
 futures = "0.3"
 # Property-based testing for comprehensive fuzzing and invariant verification
 proptest = "1.4"